October 28,1981 Volume 27, Number 19 Extra $980,000 for UBC eng neering school UBC’s engineering school has the UCBC said it was to be used for alleviate the $7.2 million shortfall in SFU, where the faculty received 13.8 received $980,000 of the $1.5 million planning the expansion of the the University’s annual operating per &nt, and of UVic, where the set aside by the Universities Council of engineering school and for the budget resulting from an arbitration settlement was 13.5 per cent. B.C. this year for engineering employment of faculty for the current award to faculty of 18 per cent. W-while, UBC’s Dean of Applied - expansion in the province. academic year. UBC’s request for an additional $7.2 Science, Dr. Martin Wedepohl, said The University of Victoria received The $1.5 million was a line item in million from the provincial he was pleased to have received the $320,000, Simon Fraser University the UCBC 1981-82 budget. It has no government is being studied by the $980,000. $200,000. bearing on UBC’s general purpose Universities Council. The UCBC is also “We have set up a planning team to In turning the money over to UBC, operating grant, and does nothing to studying the financial problems of determine how we might reach our goal of 2,500 undergraduate engineering students over the next six or seven years,’’ Dean Wedepohl said, “assuming, of course, that the provincial government will provide the necessary funds. ” Dr. Wedepohl cautioned, however, LL that it may still be necessary to control enrolment in engineering in 1982, although he said the proposed limitation of 450 students to first-year engineering might be revised upward. The enrolment limitation proposal, approved by the UBC Senate in September, was rejected Oct. 6 by the Board of Governors. Senate, at its October meeting, turned the question back to the Faculty of Applied Science. There are 1,744 engineering undergraduates this year, including 483 in first year. There are 529 in second year, 391 in third and 341 in fourth. The academic training of engineers has been considered by all three B.C. universities over a number of years, with both UVic and SEU wanting to establish engineering schools. In March, however, a report of the When it’s not raining, October is a fantastic month for the color-conscious at UBC. The turning leaves, the falling leaves Universities Council of B.C. said UBC and the fallen leaves, on a day of autumn sunshine, can even make one forget about the weather we’ve had this week. should expand to 2,500 undergraduate students before any second school should be established. The report said the second school should be at the Private donations near $10 million University of Victoria, “when the need Private donations to the University gave $111,400 to the Aquatic Centre, funded or helped fund 12 major based ondemand is clearly perceived.” 9 of B.C. totalled almost $10 million for $308,565 to the Student Union campus buildings by more than $6.6 The report also said that SFU the year ended March 31, 1981, Building and $69,475 to the Graduate million, a degree of support believed should continue to offer the first two according to the annual report of the Centre. to be unequalled by the students of years of an engineering program that Resources Office. Since 1928, students at UBC have any other North American university. enables students to transfer into A total of 342 associations and accredited engineering schools organizations contributed $3,192,005, elsewhere. 327 corporations gave $1,164,772, 76 New UBC bus route planned At the present time, a number of foundations gave $2,958,158, 31 A new crosstown Vancouver bus midway between those currently colleges and universities in the bequests totalled $940,257, and 1,701 route, for the most part to run along operating on Broadway and on 41st province offer the first two years of individual donors gave the University King Edward Avenue and East 22nd Avenue. The route will provide engineering as a ‘feeder’ system to $1,672,955 (exclusive of the 6,109 Avenue, has been approved in convenient access for persons travelling UBC. Alumni Fund donors). principle by the Greater Vancouver to a number of major institutions UBC’s engineering school submitted Of the total of $9,928,147, almost Regional District (GVRD) Board of along its length, including UBC, an 11-page report to the UCBC in two-thirds was designated to research, Directors. Shaughnessy and the new Children’s/ September on engineering education $6,116,741. Capital items accounted The proposed route would run from Grace Hospitals, G.F. Strong at the University. for $1,119,441, student aid received the University of British Columbia east Rehabilitation Centre, Burnaby This report said present staff and $2,427,365, and $264,600 went to as far as the Brentwood Mall Shopping General Hospital, BCIT and a number financial resources of the engineering teaching. Centre in Burnaby. Service could start of schools and commerical centres. departments are adequate for a In addition to the private financial by April 1982. Details of the proposed route, maximum of 1,400 undergraduate support, there were more than 100 The new service must also be including bus stops and shelters, will students - almost 400 below the gifts-in-kind, including a lithograph of approved by the City of Vancouver, be worked out in co-operation with current level of enrolment. a Navaho painting, a Northwest Coast the Municipality of Burnaby, the Vancouver, Burnaby and the MTOC. “In 1981-82 theenrolment will be ! print, alpine plants, a raven sculpture Urban Transit Authority (UTA) and The GVRD is responsible for transit about 1,800 and in 1982-83 about and Southwest Asian and North the Metro Transit Operating Company planning in the region and shares 2,000,” the report stated. “The American artifacts. (MTOC) . responsibility for financing with the Student support for the year ended The service will meet a high priority provincial UTA. The actual operation Please turn to page 2 March 31 totalled $489,440. Students need for an additional crosstown route of the buses is done by the MTOC. See ENGINEERING L . UBC Reports October 28, 1981 Board app/oves 5-year capital building plan A five-year capital plan for building square-foot expansion of the projects (1982-87) to be funded MacMillan Building, a Physical Plant through the Educational Institution Service Building, and a major Capital Finance Act has been reconstruction and expansion of the approved by the UBC Board of Library. Governors for submission to the Five other major construction Universities Council as a planning projects on campus are at various document. stages of development. The Board also decided that The $5.8 million Home Economics projects listed for 1982-83 will be building is under construction, and submitted to the council as requests the $2.7 million Centre for Coal and for funding. Mineral Processing is almost complete. These projects are: The $11 million Physics and Chemistry The Faculty of Medicine’s share building is at the working drawing of the eye centre at Vancouver stage, and the $10 million Psychology General Hospital (total area 64,000 building is about to go to tender. Bids square feet); for construction of a new bookstore The Laurel I1 project at VGH, came in a million dollars over estimate part of a major clinical redevelopment and the project is on ‘hold’ for a of VGH (32,000 square feet); second look. The Faculty of Medicine’s share Borrowing under the Educational of research space at the new Institution Capital Finance Act has Shaughnessy Hospital (part of a been the major source of funds for project totalling 37,500 square feet); UBC construction during the past four Additional space for the or five years, as the result of Faculty of Dentistry. (25,300 square government policy to increase the rate feet); of new construction beyond what Public works and renovations. could be paid for by ‘cash capital’. Under the category of “Special The University, in effect, obtains the Projects” for 1982-83 is a funds by issuing a debenture to the 24,000-square-foot Fine Arts Gallery. government under terms which assure Special projects are those buildings that the govemment will in turn that would be used as community provide the funds to meet the interest resources as well as academic centres. and sinking fund payments. These Meanwhile, two “first priority” jobs debt servicing funds are separate from and one “special project” approved by the annual operating grant. the UBC Board of Governors earlier UBC construction approved by this are still awaiting approv4 from the method in 1977 totalled about $?5 Universities Council. million. The total was about $45 UBC women5 athletic director Marilyn Pomfret inspects Indian “talking stick” These are a proposed ZSd,OOO- million in 1978, $9 million in 1979 shipped to University of Glasgow where it will be awarded annually to faculty and $20 million in 1980. member or student who makes an outstanding contribution to the development Money for capital projects, of sport at that university. First recipient of the gzft from the UBC women5 field including funds approved by the hockey team is Glasgow physical education teacher Katherine Clarke, who Museum offers government for public works and organized s#rzng tour of England by the UBC team following UBCS victory in renovations, is separate from operating an international tournament in Scotland. funds and cannot be used by the field trip University to alleviate any possible operating deficit.